Friday, 18 November 2011

Not many young people know and realize how painful and distressful can be joint aches related to arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. However, the older we get, the more chances we have to develop this terrible disease. A great deal of today’s scientists are being studying this health condition and looking for effective cures to relieve its symptoms and joint pains associated with arthritis. According to the findings of a group of experts working in Cardiff University, an old herbal remedy like frankincense can assist those who suffer from arthritis in alleviating the pains, aches and other symptoms of arthritis.
The research, leaded by Professor Vic Duance and Dr Emma Blain, the experts from Cardiff University’s School of Biosciences and Dr Ahmed Ali of the Compton Group (Somalia), embraced studying the effects of frankincense extract known as one of the oldest and traditional African herbal remedies for arthritis on joint aches and pains of various severity. “The search for new ways of relieving the symptoms of inflammatory arthritis and osteoarthritis is a long and difficult one,” Dr. Emma Blain underlines. For the experiments, the scientists used Boswellia frereana, one of quite rare African species of frankincense tree that grows in Somalia and many regions of Central Africa.
The Cardiff scientists managed to achieve a great success in their search for obtaining the best and the most effective ways to combat rheumatoid arthritis pains with the help of this ancient natural remedy. According to the comments of Dr. Ali, their research and experiments ended up with determining the most effective way of receiving special chemical extractions. In other words, the study findings include a special and unique formula based on natural ingredients extracted from frankincense and working perfectly well for relieving joint pains related to arthritis and joint inflammations.
“Having done this we are now able to further characterise the chemical entity and compare its success against other anti-inflammatory drugs used for treating the condition,” Dr Ali says. The findings of this very important study sponsored by the Severnside Alliance for Translational Research (SARTRE) in the framework of its famous and ongoing project the MRC Developmental Pathway Funding Scheme, were recently presented to the general public in one of Cardiff University scientific editions. Read more about good old and effective herbal remedies for arthritis.